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EU Radio Equipment Directive Timeline

RED has applied since 13 June 2016. Later acts added category-specific common-charger dates and activated for specified radio equipment.

Use each date as a legal-status gate: identify the product, category, and first EU market-placement date, then record which design, label, standards, declaration, or technical-file evidence the change affects.

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Sorena AI
Published
May 9, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
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Overview

The main RED application date was 13 June 2016. The old-law transition covered only qualifying equipment for which occurred before 13 June 2017. Later category deadlines were 28 December 2024 for twelve listed wired-chargeable categories, 1 August 2025 for the activated by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30, and 28 April 2026 for wired-chargeable laptops. Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/339 will repeal that RED cybersecurity act from 11 December 2027, while preserving surveillance of subject equipment placed on the Union market from 1 August 2025 through 10 December 2027. These dates do not apply to every radio product, so record the category, first EU market placement, applicable requirement, and evidence affected by each milestone.

Section 1

Which RED dates change a product decision?

A date changes a product decision only after the product and the market act are clear. '' is the first supply of an individual product on the Union market; later supply is 'making available'. Record whether the unit qualified for the old-law transition, belongs to a listed wired-chargeable common-charger category, falls within one or more Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 categories, or relies on a subject to an Official Journal restriction or withdrawal date.

Adoption, publication, entry into force, transposition, and application are different milestones. Adoption and publication identify the legal history. The application date determines when the operative duties must be used. A transition provision applies only on its stated conditions; it is not a general extension for products first placed on the market after the cutoff.

The RED cybersecurity interval has an express end point. Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/339 repeals Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 from 11 December 2027 to avoid overlap with the Cyber Resilience Act. The repeal does not erase the earlier RED duties: Union market surveillance and control remain available for subject equipment placed on the market from 1 August 2025 through 10 December 2027.

  • 16 April 2014: Directive 2014/53/EU was adopted.
  • 22 May 2014: RED was published in the Official Journal.
  • 11 June 2014: RED entered into force, 20 days after publication.
  • 12 June 2016: Member States had to adopt and publish the laws, regulations and administrative provisions needed to comply with RED.
  • 13 June 2016: RED began to apply, and Directive 1999/5/EC was repealed with effect from that date.
  • Before 13 June 2017: Article 48 protected equipment only if it complied with the earlier applicable Union legislation and had already been placed on the market before this date.
  • 23 November 2022: Directive (EU) 2022/2380, the common-charger amendment, was adopted. Member States had to transpose it by 28 December 2023.
  • 28 December 2024: started to apply to the twelve listed categories insofar as the equipment can be recharged by wired charging.
  • 30 January 2025: Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/138 published references to EN 18031-1:2024, EN 18031-2:2024, and EN 18031-3:2024 with notices limiting presumption of conformity for specified clauses or configurations.
  • 1 August 2025: Article 3(3)(d), (e), and (f) became applicable to the categories assigned by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30, subject to that regulation's exclusions.
  • 11 December 2025: consolidated version of Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2191. Standards citations remain version-, requirement-, restriction-, and withdrawal-date specific, so check the current OJEU record again before approving the conformity file.
  • 28 April 2026: started to apply to laptops capable of wired recharging.
  • 29 April 2026: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/339 was published; it entered into force on 19 May 2026.
  • 11 December 2027: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 will be repealed. Surveillance remains available for subject equipment placed on the Union market from 1 August 2025 through 10 December 2027.
Section 2

What should a dated RED decision record contain?

Keep one release record that links each date to the individual product or product type, category, software and antenna configuration, first EU supply, applicable legal provision, owner, conclusion, and affected evidence. Linking those fields prevents a general regulatory date from being mistaken for a universal redesign deadline.

For the 2017 transition, retain evidence of conformity with the earlier applicable Union legislation and evidence that the individual units were placed on the market before 13 June 2017. Manufacturing or warehousing before the cutoff is not the same as first supply on the Union market.

For a current launch, the supporting set normally includes the scope and role memo, Article 3 matrix, dated OJEU standards check, test reports, Article 17 route decision, notified-body certificate where the selected procedure requires one, cybersecurity and common-charger evidence where applicable, EU declaration of conformity, labels, instructions, and technical documentation.

  • Maintain a dated scope memo and cross-reference it to Directive 2014/53/EU.
  • Attach standards, tests, declarations, supplier inputs, authority correspondence, and remediation logs where they support the conclusion.
  • Reopen the record when the product, supplier, market, , guidance, or legal deadline changes.
Section 3

Turn the timeline into release gates

Assign an owner to each applicable date and record yes, no, or needs-escalation with the supporting evidence. Historical adoption and publication dates provide context; application dates, category deadlines, and standards withdrawal dates can change the release decision.

  • Record the finished product, radio technologies, configurations, intended use, economic-operator role, and planned placement date.
  • Test common-charger and delegated cybersecurity scope independently. For common charging, confirm both a listed category and wired-recharging capability. For cybersecurity, map points (d), (e), and (f) separately and record any exclusion.
  • Check the current Official Journal citation, version, restriction, and cessation date for every claimed in the declaration.
  • Update the test plan, labels, distance-selling display, instructions, declaration, technical documentation, and notified-body file only where the dated change affects them.
  • Reopen the record after a radio-critical component, antenna, software, intended-use, supplier, standards, or legal change.
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References and citations

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/339 repealing the RED cybersecurity delegated act
eur-lex.europa.eu4 citations
Referenced sections
  • Binding source for repeal of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 from 11 December 2027 and preserved RED surveillance for subject equipment placed on the market through 10 December 2027.
  • Binding source for publication, entry into force, repeal from 11 December 2027, and preserved surveillance of subject equipment placed on the market through 10 December 2027.
  • Supports recording the 11 December 2027 repeal and preserving evidence for equipment placed on the market during the 1 August 2025 to 10 December 2027 surveillance interval.
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  • Supports the future repeal gate and the continuing need to retain evidence for equipment placed on the market during the preserved surveillance interval.
"repealed with effect from 11 December 2027"
More quoted passages
"does not affect the Union market surveillance and control"
Consolidated Directive 2014/53/EU on radio equipment (30 May 2026)
eur-lex.europa.eu4 citations
Referenced sections
  • Current consolidated RED source for scope, placing on the market, the Article 48 transition, essential requirements, conformity assessment, declarations, technical documentation, and CE marking.
  • Current consolidated RED source for market-placement definitions, entry into force, transposition, application, repeal of Directive 1999/5/EC, and the conditional Article 48 transition.
  • Current consolidated RED source for placing on the market, the Article 48 transition, essential requirements, conformity assessment, declarations, technical documentation, and CE marking.
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  • Current consolidated RED source for scope, market-placement concepts, essential requirements, conformity assessment, declarations, technical documentation, and CE marking.
"placed on the market before 13 June 2017"
More quoted passages
"placing on the market"
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/138 on RED cybersecurity standards
eur-lex.europa.eu2 citations
Referenced sections
  • Official source for the EN 18031 cybersecurity references and notices limiting presumption of conformity.
  • Official source for the 30 January 2025 OJEU citation of the EN 18031 series and the notices limiting presumption of conformity.
"should therefore be published in the Official Journal of the European Union with restrictions"
Directive (EU) 2022/2380 on common chargers for radio equipment
eur-lex.europa.eu2 citations
Referenced sections
  • Binding source for common-charger categories, transposition, consumer information, and the 28 December 2024 and 28 April 2026 application dates.
  • Binding source for adoption, transposition, the listed wired-chargeable categories, and application from 28 December 2024 or 28 April 2026.
"from 28 December 2024"
More quoted passages
"from 28 April 2026"
European Commission - harmonised standards overview
single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu
Referenced sections
  • Official Commission overview used for standards, OJEU citation, and presumption-of-conformity context.
"The references of harmonised standards must be published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU)."

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